[lit-ideas] Re: Tasting: the preparatory text
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:50:00 -0230
Quoting Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>:
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> Eric: In general, writers and poets have *more* courage than
> philosophers. Writers and poets go to darker places, within
> themselves and their characters, than philosophers usually
> dare to enter. Hence the philosopher's penchant for
> "clarity," analysis, and argumentation, all of which are,
> finally, a way of defending the timid self by recourse to
> generalizations and abstractions.
The above claims and inferences require at least a 2 hour seminar on the nature
of philosophical analysis and argumentation. (With lots of coffee .... suitably
spiked, I would suggest.)
As the great philosopher Harry Stotelmeir was wont to say: a reckless person
looks at the courageous woman and sees a coward. A coward looks at the
courageous woman and sees a reckless person. What can I say? Life's a beach.
Cheers, Walter
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